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EU lawmakers debate rights and protections of ethnic minorities

MEPs discussed the topics of minority languages and cultures that are spread out across the continent.

World

How are translations between English and Arabic helping to tackle misinformation?

Iraqi students from the University of Mosul are on a mission to share English content with their peers in Arabic.

United Kingdom

Scottish islands to teach every school pupil in Gaelic

A ‘Gaelic First’ policy has been introduced to help boost the language in the Outer Hebrides where it is spoken by 52% of residents.

France

Quelle horreur! 'Franglais' is a threat to French, academy says

L'Academie Francaise said it is 'seriously concerned' at mixing French with English — a common phenomenon in an age of social media and global marketing.

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Italy

Watch: Giant dictionary highlights Italian words at risk of disappeari

Words people have declared they would save include 'caspita' (golly) and 'perdinci' (by jingo).

Europe News

Polyglot or mono: the word wars in Brussels

Despite Brexit, English remains a key working language in the EU, which creates a certain amount of friction with the French speakers in Brussels.

Belgium

EU chief Juncker claims coastal Belgium 'less tolerant of French'

EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker has sparked demands for an apology in Belgium after claims he made to local media about observing a decrease in linguistic tolerance in towns on the country's coastline.

World News

First-ever movie in Slavic Esperanto premieres at Venice festival

Director Vaclav Marhoul said he specifically chose an invented language for the villagers' dialect. "I didn't want the villagers (speaking) Ukrainian or Polish or Russian or something like that because those people are really bad people," he said.

World News

Breaking the stigma of speaking an Indigenous language

Euronews spoke to speakers of Indigenous languages in Latin America about their languages and how they struggle not to lose them.

World

Kumzari: the Omani language on the verge of extinction

The tiny fishing village of Kumzar lies in the northern tip of Oman at the strategic trade artery called the Strait of Hormuz, and as a result, has developed an uncommon identity.

World

How does switching between languages impact your body?

UAE-based researchers are exploring how switching between languages affects the body and brain.

France

French court accepts ñ can be used in national language

Judges overturn earlier ruling that banned parents from officially naming their child Fañch.

World News

French ranked bottom in EU for level of English

A new report says France has the lowest level of English proficiency of any European Union country, while Swedes were ranked the best internationally.

Italy

Italy graffiti seeks to save lesser-used words from extinction

An Italian publishing house is using street graffiti in a bid to save lesser-used words from extinction and help bring them into popular discourse.

World News

Which EU countries teach most of their students a second language?

On the European Day of Languages, a new report has found just eleven EU countries are teaching 90% or more of their students in lower secondary education a second language.

United Kingdom

Why scallops are a symbol of European integration, not division

What a piece of seafood tells us about the EU's shared identity.

World News

European students 'learning more languages than their US counterparts'

European students are learning more languages than their American counterparts, according to a new study.

Israel

‘World’s largest Arabic lesson’ held in Israel after nation-state law

The event sought to offer a “creative way instead of a violent way” of responding to the controversial law, which declared Hebrew the language of the state and gave Arabic a “special status”.

World News

Euroviews. It's not Orwell's Newspeak: Why we must take charge of shaping our language | View

We need new ways of resisting the rhetoric of power addicts in the 21st century.

United Kingdom

Less than half of English teens learn a foreign language

Less than half of English pupils choose to learn a modern foreign language at school, a new report has found.